Week

Date

Topic

Readings

Supplementary

Assignment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

Tue., Jan. 28

Introduction/Course Overview

 

 

 

 

 

Thu., Jan. 30

Computational Perspective

Marr 1982

 

 

 

2

Tue., Feb. 05

Acoustic Phonetics

MacKay  Ch. 6

 

Lab 1 Assigned

 

 

Thu., Feb. 07

Acoustic Phonetics

Ladefoged vowels  Ch. 4 & 5

 

 

 

3

Tue., Feb. 12

Acoustic Phonetics

Ladefoged consonants  Ch. 6

 

Lab 1 due

Lab 2 Assigned

 

 

Thu., Feb. 14

Experimentation

Ladefoged & Broadbent 1957

 

 

 

4

Tue., Feb. 19

Categorical Perception

No reading

 

Lab 2 due

 

 

Thu., Feb. 21

Categorical Perception

Kuhl & Miller 1975 Shannon & Danielle

Kuhl & Miller 1978 Kuhl review

 

 

5

Tue., Feb. 26

MEG Lab Visit

Phillips et al. 2000

 

Lab 3 Assigned

 

 

Thu., Feb. 28

Categorical Perception: Mismatch Negativity

Naatanen et al. 1997, Kazanina et al. 2006

Hana & Adam

 

 

 

6

Tue., Mar. 04

Infant Speech Perception

Werker & Tees 1984 Emma & Jen

Werker & Tees 1984b, Eimas 1985

 

 

 

Thu., Mar. 06

Infant Speech Perception

Maye et al. 2002,          Kuhl 2004

Amanda

 

 

 

7

Tue., Mar. 11

Infant Speech Perception

Stager & Werker 1997, Pater et al. 2004

Tara & Janet

Werker & Yeung 2005, Bernhardt et al 2007

 

 

 

Thu., Mar. 13

MEG Lab Review

(Ellen Lau away)

 

 

Lab 3 due

 

8

Tue., Mar. 18

SPRING BREAK: NO CLASS

 

 

Thu., Mar. 20

9

Tue., Mar. 25

Top-down Effects

(Phil Monahan away)

 

Warren 1970

 

 

 

 

Thu., Mar. 27

Top-down Effects

Fox 1984

Hana

Ganong 1980

 

 

10

Tue., Apr. 01

Top-down Effects

Elman & McClelland 1988  

Adam

 

Lab 4 assigned

 

 

Thu., Apr. 03

Top-down Effects

Marslen-Wilson & Zwitserlood 1989

Janet

Nooteboom & van der Vlugt, 1988

 

 

11

Tue., Apr. 08

Assimilation

Mitterer & Blomert 2003

Emma

 

 

Final Project Proposal due

 

 

Thu., Apr. 10

Assimilation

Gow & Im 2004

Danielle

 

 

 

 

12

Tue., Apr. 15

Work on Lab 4

(Ellen and Phil away)

 

 

Splicing materials Lab 4

 

 

Thu., Apr. 17

Motor theory

Galantucci et al. 2006

Shannon

 

 

 

13

Tue., Apr. 22

Motor theory

Blumstein & Stevens 1981

Tara

 

Running Lab 4

 

 

Thu., Apr. 24

Production

Carroll chapter

 

Running Lab 4

 

14

Tue., Apr. 29

Production

Fromkin 1971

(through Sec. 3 / p. 15)

Amanda

 

Analyzing Lab 4

 

 

Thu., May 01

Production

Houde & Jordan 1998

Jen

 

Analyzing Lab 4

 

15

Tue., May 06

Neural Instantiation

Hickok & Poeppel 2007

(ventral stream – 393-399)

 

Lab 4 final write-up due

 

 

Thu., May 08

Neural Instantiation

Hickok & Poeppel 2007

(dorsal stream – 399-401)

 

 

 

16

Tue., May 13

Wrap-up

 

 

Final Project Due